Boldt 04 - Beyond Recognition

by Ridley Pearson

  Concerto in Dead Flat

  SHORT STORIES

  “All Over but the Dying” in Diagnosis Terminal,

  edited by F. Paul Wilson

  “Close Shave” in Murder Is My Racquet,

  edited by Otto Penzler

  COLLECTIONS

  The Putt at the End of the World,

  a serial novel

  TELEVISION

  The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer

  (Movie, ABC TV, May 2003)

  Investigative Reports: Inside AA

  (A&E Network, June 2000)

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. All characters are works of the author’s imagination; no similarity to persons living or dead is intended. Any factual mistakes or liberties taken are the author’s responsibility—I offer my apologies, up front, for any such errors.

  Copyright © 1997, Ridley Pearson

  All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. For information address Hyperion, 114 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10011.

  The Library of Congress has catalogued the original print edition of this book as follows: Pearson, Ridley.

  Beyond recognition / by Ridley Pearson. — 1st ed.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 0-7868-6240-8

  I. Title.

  PS3566.E234B4 1997

  813’.54—dc20 96-21125

  CIP

  eBook Edition ISBN: 978-1-4013-0514-7

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